[Viraj_Guru]

Originally Posted by PrideRed

Come Bangalore, many of the so called "Poor farmers" back then have now turned into wealthy landlords/builders and zip around the city in RR's/GLS/Porsche's, chewing supari with open windows. I was awestruck to see a man in his 70's wearing a lungi and bathroom slippers step out of brand new GLS . In another instance saw a Q5 with driver ferrying domestic help and the owner(now a builder) was driving a Cayenne right behind the Q5. Heard both these guys were Poor farmers with acres of land in Whitefield back then!

This situation is more or less same in growing cities, here in Pune which grown up exponentially and unplanned created huge money for outskirts (ex) farmers, normally seen white color (with fancy number plates) Scorpio, Fortuner to BMW, MB etc. However, we shouldn't generalize the whole topic, as some of them are forced to sell (industrial zone allocation etc.) or some of them bought the farm in a different place and continue with farming.